Just wondering if anyone has made the vents in their hoods functional? I'm going to open mine up today to allow cooler air to flow through the engine compartment.

I cut the steel out from under my hood with a grinder....i know it helps it now......and its still fine in the rain cause all the water just goes where your latch is for your hood and does not go any farther so it works out well (only takes about an hour to do both)

i use to ask that question all the time, but i guess nobody does it. It seems that the vents just sit too far forward in the hood to get any kind of piping to them. It would be suhweeet if you could though.

ditto, cut out to allow more cooling in the summer months

I just did it. Here's some pics.

Before



After



(Water from washing off all the metal shavings)

So it does help to do this if you have an open element air cleaner, right? Notice any improvement in throttle response after doing it or is it just to cool down the engine a bit?
Good and helpful pics BTW, jo!

I took it down the road to see if it made any difference and it's hard to say because my car is tempermental. One day runs like a scolded dog and the next day it runs like a family cruiser. It seemed to make a little difference IMO but tommorrow I might say it didn't. I have a K&N cone filter but it's at the stock location where the old filter was. I was really trying to get rid of some of the heat from under the hood not really trying to make a RAM AIR intake. Keeping to the "Appearance" side of things my thought was allowing cooler air under the hood would help keep my paint from fading due to the hot temps under the hood, cool the TB and etc. I think it works.

Anything is possible if you're determined.

Okay, so you've got a hole to allow cooler outside air in, but where does the hot underhood air that is displaced by the inducted air go? If it doesn't move, or isn't drawn out by say cooling vents facing the opposite direction (opening facing the rear of the car), then the warm air won't move, and thus, even tho you have a ram air style vent hole, the stagnant air will act as a barrier blocking any induction. Am I right?

Sorry, I'm rather long-winded. The point is no cool air will come in, if no warm air goes out, so where does the warm air go?

I did this on my old hood, and made a ram air box for my open element that sealed to the underside of the hood. Took some doing and I don't know how much it helped but what the hell. I figure it's GOT to help more than those "cold air" kits that suck up air off of the pavement. Call me goofy, but the air around here in virginia gets hot as hell as it is, let alone any of the air rising off of the hot pavement.

Steve

I'm working on that idea. I was thinking about it yesterday when I was cutting the holes in the front. IMO the rear needs to vent more than the front can push in due to air coming in from the Hood Vents and underneath the car.

Hey Steve. I remember seeing a picture of that. I tried to go and see it again but I couldn't get into your site.

Yeah, it's currently down while I revamp it using Dreamweaver. My host changed their policy from "Unlimited" to 25MB which completely blows as my last site sat at around 100MB. Oh well, I guess all of the articles and stuff have to stay sh!tcanned. Hopefully it'll be up next month sometime. I can post some of the pix of the process here once I get home though.

Steve